Benita Candela

Benita is a fourteen year old girl living in a neighborhood that may be similar to yours. The story takes place during the fifties and the sixties. She was born in Ponce, Puerto Rico and her parents moved to Bridgeport, CT when she was four years old. She is the youngest of four sisters and three brothers. She shares with the reader her experiences in school, her neighborhood and her everyday life in Bridgeport. She may remember a time when she was five and then quickly connect to a...
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Benita is a fourteen year old girl living in a neighborhood that may be similar to yours. The story takes place during the fifties and the sixties. She was born in Ponce, Puerto Rico and her parents moved to Bridgeport, CT when she was four years old. She is the youngest of four sisters and three brothers. She shares with the reader her experiences in school, her neighborhood and her everyday life in Bridgeport. She may remember a time when she was five and then quickly connect to a time that relates to her high school experiences. This period of "growing up" is a special, almost magical time of life for Benita. Her most personal memories almost always relate to the many sacrifices that her parents made in order to give her and her siblings a better life.